Returning the Self to Nature: Undoing Our Collective Narcissism and Healing Our Planet

Written by Jeanine M. Canty

Narrated by Mia Ellis

Using the lens of ecopsychology, Returning the Self to Nature shows that the pervasive and extreme forms of narcissism we find in many modern societies are fundamentally the result of alienation from the natural world. But it doesn't have to be that way.

Returning the Self to Nature is written for the person who no longer wishes to function in a world that revolves around selfish, disconnected identity models and yearns to step into healthy relationships with one's self, one's community, and our planet.

Seeing the suffering of the planet and that of humans as inseparably linked-the ecological crisis as psychological crisis, and vice versa-opens the door to a mutuality of healing between people and nature. At the heart of both chronic and acute forms of narcissism is a socially constructed false self.

Through unflinching analysis and meditation practices that encourage visualizing and embodying the wild naturalness of being human, the listener will gain skills to begin experiencing a courageous, pluralistic, and ecological self. This book is an invitation to wake up from the dream of the false self and join the movement toward social and planetary healing.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Oct 18, 2022
• ISBN: 9798765044049

Reviews for Returning the Self to Nature

[Silverio Suárez McAuliffe · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This is a most impressive book on Ecopsychology. Jeanine M. Canty puts NPD as a main cause for the tremendous degradation and abuse and destruction of the natural environment and the natural resources of our marvelous rich, abundant, generous mother nature Gaia, now so near to extinction. On a time of so many wars, contamination, hunger, extreme poverty, pandemias and the total final war. We could well ask to ourselves? What has been the purpose of Neoliberalism and Narcissism?